High on Life Again

This doesn't technically have to do with cycling, but I like to lump all physical activity into the same category, so that's exactly what I'm doing with this post. As it was mentioned in the comments from the previous post: "intense engagement with a physical activity, coupled with the social aspects, can probably produce the proverbial 'runner's high'" or "post-ride depression" is how I was feeling until this morning. I expected today to be another uneventful day in which I wished to be back on the ride with all of the cool people I met. Instead, I got the exciting news of what level high school class I will be teaching in the fall (including the student's names, very cool), which gave me the mental high that I had been feeling deprived of.

Then because it's summer and I'm a student who is taking the summer off (sorry to make everyone jealous) I decided on a whim to go and hike Mt. Major in Alton, NH. For those of you who don't know about this mountain, it is little more than a large hill (although it has some steep sections on one of the trails, and some great views), I hiked up and down in about 1.5 hours.

Then, when I returned home I went for an amazing paddle (kayaking) on the Oyster River where I watched the high school kids that I normally coach row by under the direction of the summer coach (and later heard that some of the rowers had said they wished I was coaching this summer, nothing like being wanted to make you smile :-D).

So all in all I'm feeling much better. Now I've just got to figure out how to keep this feeling going for the rest of this week. Like I said in the last post, come and join me in some of these activities if you're in the area. My email address is in the profile (and I live in the NH seacoast area). That's gonna be it for now, but I shall return again to post when you least expect it ;-P.